The Difference One Missed Letter Makes
You’d think that when you accidentally miss a letter whilst typing really quickly that the intent of the writing doesn’t get lost. Sometimes the words are still correct, so autocorrect or spellcheck...
Shame on you, Oxford Dictionary.
The Oxford Dictionary named the “tears of joy” emoji as their word of the year. As the world’s authority on language, you’ve set verbal discourse back years, decades, dare we say...
Editors’ Most Hated Mistakes – Part 2
As promised, we’ve compiled a new crop of editing nightmares for those who share the frustration. These cringe-inducing habits are the literary equivalent of socks and sandals. Seeing them can render...
Writing for Work vs. Writing for Pleasure
Writing is writing is writing. Right? Wrong. In so many ways, all the types of pen to ink find their differences. In this instance, we’re talking about the actual writing process. The following is a...
Not Everyone is an Editor
What? You mean to say that my friend who taught fifth-grade English once isn’t qualified to edit my entrance essay to an Ivy League school? Right. And neither is your friend who taught ESL abroad for...
How to Find Your Perfect Writer (in 3 Easy Steps)
Business owners have very particular ideas about how they want things to sound. As they should. It’s their business, their baby. They want everything about it to be perfect. But not all of us have a...
Editors’ Most Hated Mistakes – Part 1
If you’ve edited anything for an extended period of time, you’ll understand how infuriating the tiniest mistakes can be. You’ll also know that intense feeling of wanting to flip a table, punch a...
SEO: What’s the Deal?
It’s a very hot term, increasingly thrown around amid other buzzwords like thought leader and target. And despite its popularity, SEO, or search engine optimization, is still a term not everyone understands....
Some Beautiful Words to Garnish Your Writing
Like a bright red cherry on top of an already mesmerizing cocktail, certain words pack a punch that can liven up your entire body of writing. They can act like a pair of really flashy shoes, pulling together...
What Presentation Errors Really Say
This brief video says it all: it doesn’t matter how eloquent or captivating the given presentation is — errors and typos will overpower the rest of the content as that’s all anyone will see. That...
Can’t Find the Right Word? Make Up Your Own!
Although your excuses for finding the right word are limited with the vast possibilities in the English language, sometimes not even a thesaurus has the right fit for that word that’s just what you’re...
Dodge Double Negatives
It’s not uncommon to see double negatives in writing. Now, wouldn’t that have read better if we said it’s common instead? All too often, people like to state things in their negative forms. But why?...